The Guard Asked Who They Were Here to See

proud of you. Straight to his own injury. That tracked.

My mother turned to him so fast I almost laughed.

“No,” she said. “You should’ve opened your eyes.”

He looked honestly stunned, which told me how long she’d been waiting to say that.

She folded her hands in her lap.

“When she came to the house that night, I packed a bag after you went upstairs.”

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